{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-3-41","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-3-41","heading":"Rates fixed by commission.","body":"Whenever the commission, after hearing had on reasonable notice, finds that the existing rates in effect and collected by any public utility are unjust, unreasonable, materially excessive or insufficient or unreasonably discriminatory, or in anywise in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine, and fix by order, the just and reasonable rates which will yield a fair rate of return to the utility for furnishing service, which rates will thereafter be observed and in force. Said rates shall thereupon become the legal rates to be charged and paid until changed.\nThe commission shall have power, when deemed by it necessary to prevent injury to the business or interest of the people or any public utility of this state in case of any emergency, to permit any public utility to alter, amend or suspend temporarily any existing rates, schedules and orders relating to or affecting any public utility or part of any public utility in this state except as provided in Section 77-3-42.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 3. Regulation of Public Utilities","Article 1. Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Rates; Service."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.77.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:18Z","sha256":"5370ba68ed2acc111ffc6344cdf00b745dd991ca62e8987c780711657889b745","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-3-40","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-3-42","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}